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By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I was having a conversation with a group of male and female middle-aged professionals recently. One of the men in the group said that feminists like me are always quick to jump to the defence of women, even when…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Chief Thomas Dejo winced as he got out of bed. The discomfort in his back was nothing new, he had grown accustomed to it. At his age, it was to be expected, but it did not stop him from feeling annoyed all the same.…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I don’t know how to operate on a patient I don’t know how drugs are manufactured I don’t know how to read an X-Ray I don’t know how to program computers I don’t know how to use a sewing machine I…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi The COVID19 crisis has led to a reordering of our lives as we know it, at least for the foreseeable future. Many important events have had to be postponed. One of them is the public presentation of ‘Naked Abuse:…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Dapo should have seen it coming. He should have known, the moment she walked into a church for a wedding ceremony ten years ago, that a time like this would come. He had gone to attend the wedding of the daughter…

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi I was in Uganda a few years ago for one of the programmes we used to run at the African Women’s Leadership Institute. One day, there was a report about something that had happened in one of the local markets. …

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi My vision for our great State is that this is a place where people can thrive and live their lives in dignity. A place where workers do not labour in vain. A place where our young people do not roam the streets,…

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi Sharon did not know for how long she had been asleep.  She listened to the voices of the nurses in her room and the sounds of the medicine cart they were wheeling around. One of the nurses asked her if she would…

There is something about archetypes. They follow a pattern. They have expected features, coloured in some expected hues and flowing in an expected course. Perhaps, that is why they are so-called; they have to fall into the mould designed…

In the wake of the deadly Xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa by a section of that country’s population, something unprecedented happened: A single individual, a private businessman brushed aside profit concerns and put aircraft…